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Another snowstorm targeting Portage: Winter blast may add up to 6 inches

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Diane Smith
February 9, 2010

 

By Diane Smith

Record-Courier staff writer

More snow is heading this way, even as road crews struggle to relocate piles of the white stuff that came down this past weekend.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning from noon Tuesday until 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Kent meteorologist Thomas Schmidlin said about 6 inches of the white stuff is expected to come down in the course of the two-day snowstorm.

The snowfall should begin around mid-day today, making for slippery rush hour travel for motorists, and continue with another 2 to 4 inches of snow Wednesday morning. By mid-day on Wednesday, the wind is expected to kick up, making for blowing and drifting of snow.

“It will be a little more of a long, drawn out event than Friday,” he said, referring to the snowstorm that dumped 13 inches of the snow in Kent, about twice the amount forecasters had predicted. The storm also traveled further north than had been anticipated.Windy conditions also are expected to contribute to blowing and drifting of snow.

Motorists can expect ice to cause hazardous driving conditions, the weather service states.

The city of Ravenna issued a snow ban on all residential streets, which begins at 10 a.m. today until noon on Thursday.

Parking in the city’s central business district will be banned from 2:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. from Tuesday through Thursday for snow removal and cleanup.

Last week, heavy snowfall plagued Portage County starting Friday night and continuing through Saturday morning, creating treacherous conditions for motorists. A man driving through Streetsboro was killed when his car collided with a snow plow. A woman and her grandson were killed when a fire swept through a Ravenna Township motor home, and firefighting efforts were hampered by the storm.

On Friday, a semi tractor-trailer jackknifed on Interstate 76, and a Greyhound bus seeking to avoid colliding with the truck slid off the roadway. The semi was towed away hours later. The bus was seen being towed away on Monday afternoon.

 




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    Posted by CmdrKJon February 9, 2010
Let's collect the snow, filter and purify it and put it in half liter bottles. I am sure we could find some suckers to buy it.

3.
    Posted by AndrewP February 9, 2010
Any more snow, and they may have to haul it out of here. Eh, just dump it into the Cuyahoga and raise that water level a little ;)

2.
    Posted by cooleronline February 9, 2010
Oh,great, Here we go again. Hats off to the road crews! But, I do wish they would not pile it so high at intersections. It is hard to see over the snow piles. You have to pull out into intersections to see traffic. Please keep this in mind Mr. Plowman.

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